#spn is a show

[queermania]

also the way that sam's demon plot is most closely a metaphor for addiction and dean's is most closely a metaphor for being gay lmaooo supernatural truly is a show

#spn is a show #mp

[deanwasalwaysbi]

Supernatural everybody

On what other show would you see a mother devastated by the death of her son, then making butt sex jokes less than a minute later.

What's Bi is Bi and who knows

#fifth base #rowena macleod #rowena #spn is a show #dean was always bi #original content #there's no such thing as fifth base #what's bi is bi #Youtube

[horrorshow]

i just think that... that...

#you know. #spn is a show #x #you and me #ov

[ayo-edebiri]

#The destiel confession scene but it's just text posts from this day because I still can't believe this was real

#destiel #supernatural #spn #nov 5th #byaurore #spnedit #userbbelcher #usersugar #tuserrachel #userallisyn #noalook #userrlaura #useralison #tuserpris #tuserhan #destieledit #spndaily #usereena #userkristi #i'm sorry but i watched the entire show + i had two posters (i still have a cas plushie help) i'm allowed <3

[saturnisfallingdown]

man supernatural might be bad but also ill be damned if thats not the most american show ever. like theres movies and tv that've tried to be this american but 99% have failed. you watch a particularly good episode of supernatural and suddenly you feel the hours of highway winds against your skin and theres more asphalt road than livable terrain for miles and you eat the best meal of your life at a pit stop and you havent gone to church since you were a kid but you still think about praying sometimes and you split a 6 pack with someone you love and a few too many people around you have guns and the land around you is so big when youre right in the center of it you feel like it could swallow you up and you know for a fact theres an unimaginable amount of mythology just beneath the surface. and then you watch the next episode where sam kills paris hilton or something

#supernatural and alice is dead are the only shows that have made me go Oh. Yeah. thats what it feels like. #^^ guy who started thinking about americana. like whatever #spn

[spn2006]

the fact that eric kripke isn't even christian really adds something to the way christianity is depicted on supernatural. because its really not about being christian at all, but about living in america, a country dominated by christianity, and having to decide for yourself how to handle that. faith is huge in supernatural, and the mythology of the show is very bible-centric, but notably, christ is never there. even sam, who starts out revering the angels, who once said he prays every night, doesn't actually call himself a christian or imply that he believes in jesus--the show is steeped in christianity and biblical lore and yet neither sam nor dean are christians. in fact, over and over again the church itself is depicted as a haunted house that sam and dean will only ever enter as strangers, as outsiders. priests, preachers, faith healers, chapels, crypts, etc. are all just iconography that create an intense sense of unease that sam and dean respond to instantly. as a jew, its very relatable. an essential part of living in america when you're not christian is that exact sense of unease, of knowing that the culture of your country has ensured that you'll get knocked over by christianity no matter where you go, that you'll see hundreds of people truly believing they're good people while doing awful things in the name of their god, and you have no choice but to confront that. kripke gets it

#i could actually write an essay about this #kripke is jewish and so is sera gamble #and when i rly think about it i think the show is very jewish #in that its a rejection of the christian interpretation of god and free will #its all about questioning what's put in front of you and i think that's a big part being jewish to me #anyway! #rambles #spn #supernatural #spn analysis #spn meta #faith #christianity #theology #kripke era #eric kripke #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #zachariah spn #uriel spn #anna milton #american gothic #fav #🔪

[emeraldsummers]

Sometimes I remember that the only reason Cas is canonically a weirdo even by angel standards is just because Misha, the first onscreen angel, made the acting choice to portray angels as inhuman and eerie, and then all of the subsequent angel actors just ignored that and portrayed the angels as regular people.

#misha: stares unblinkingly at jensen and puts on a funny voice. everyone else: yeah nahhhh #so much of the acting choices on that show were “idk i felt like it” like was there even a director????? #spn #supernatural #castiel #misha collins #this isnt an actual critique or anything its just funny #also weirdo is being used affectionately i love cas to death

[drulalovescas]

gay couples: [exist]

Dean Winchester: YOU CAN DO THAT???!!!

#and the way the camera always zooms in on dean to show his reaction #never sam #wonder why that is #supernatural #destiel #spn 8x23 #spn 8x11 #spn 11x19

[the-pulp-almanac]

Ah yes I know that show, I watched it on tumblr.

#shows I've had this happen with include: #heartstopper #red white and royal blue #merlin #supernatural #the borgias #the witcher #tv #my shit #rwrb #spn #destiel

[artemis-pendragon]

Imagine you're some religious guy who agrees to let an angel inhabit your body for a holy purpose and it all goes great except your wife thinks you're insane and threatens to take your daughter and leave but this is IMPORTANT so you let the angel in anyway. But then BUT THEN. it turns out the angel's mission is to pull Some Guy out of Hell and the fucking angel is gay and insane and rebels against Heaven because he wants to kiss this guy from literal Hell on the mouth so so so bad. Also many years later he does use your now thankfully empty human body (you got killed by Lucifer during the fight to stop the apocalypse btw) to fuck nasty with the guy he rescued because again, he's gay and insane. Every day Jimmy Novak wakes up

#the last part is from the secret good spn but yknow. death of the authors we make the rules #insane gay show for insane gay people #destiel #spn #supernatural #nov 5th

[queermania]

I'm a little confused what you meant when you said that hellers overestimate how much of the fandom they makeup but then not having Dean reciprocate wouldn't go over well. Those statements seem kind of contradictory. Why wouldn't it go over well if it's only going to make a small portion mad?

that's a good question. it is kind of confusing, but let me see if i can explain what i mean.

so, a sentiment i often see expressed in fandom is that the network/execs/show missed out on destiel dollars— meaning if they had pulled the trigger on destiel, they would've been able to make so much money and it would've increased viewership and con attendance and merch would be flying off the shelves, etc and i... just don't think that's true? i think there is a solid chance if they had pulled the trigger on destiel circa s12-13 (which is when i think it was most likely to have happened), viewership would've largely remained the same or gone down (at least initially. idk how it would've looked in the long run because i think that largely would've depended on how the story shook out).

but with castiel's confession, they sort of have pulled the trigger on destiel (or at least loaded the gun) and in doing so they've put themselves in a tight spot. i think they could've ended the show without ever having addressed it in any explicit way (no confession, just more of the same ambiguity) and it would've been fine. any future continuation could go on much the same way. but that's not where we're at. they've posed a question that necessitates an answer and while i don't think destiel is necessarily lucrative, i think flat out nixing it does harm them, especially at this point. which means the only option is to confirm it. dean has to reciprocate. they've written a story where there is no other option.

if you're going to acknowledge the elephant in the room, you have to acknowledge that it is in fact an elephant. you have to acknowledge that dean hasn't had a real viable female love interest since s6 and that the last person that could even remotely be considered a female love interest reaffirmed destiel more than it negated it. you have to acknowledge that dean built a family that doesn't look like a traditional nuclear family and he was happy with it and why. you have to acknowledge that you've written a man who has had subtextual romantic and sexual relationships with various men. all of these things could have stayed unacknowledged but they chose to point it out with cas' confession, so they have to acknowledge it.

from a storytelling perspective, i just don't see how they go forward in any satisfying way without dean reciprocating. from a cultural standpoint, i think cas' confession and destiel in general has made too much of an impact in the world of fandom for them to shoot it down. they blazed a trail whether they meant to or not. i think, given the state of the world and our sociopolitical situation, that it would be nothing short of cruel to not follow through on it and i think most of the people involved in the creative process of making supernatural know that. and i think that not following through with it on the original show is one thing. you're still catering to a general audience. but a continuation should be a love letter to the fans who've been keeping the porch light on for you and i think that crowd skews neutral to positive when it comes destiel.

#replies #anonymous #spn is a show

[deanwasalwaysbi]

#Unparalleled paralleling experience #unparalleled media experience #glitter text #spn memes #chaos in the cule #the winchesters #spn is a show

[bloodybellycomb]

About a decade ago, my 65 year old conservative father binge watched a tv show on netflix and he became absolutely obsessed with it–to the point my mom and I were sick of hearing about it–so he decided to go on the internet to find other people who loved this show as much as he did and boy oh boy, he was not prepared to see what happened when you googled the phrase "Supernatural fan communities."

#supernatural #spn #destiel #nov 5th #he still loved the show after this #which is even funnier tbh #its probably for the best that he passed away before 2020 #because i think his head would have exploded #birdy chirps

[supernatural-case]

cas loved him here

cas loved him here

cas loved him here

cas loved him here

cas loved him here

cas loved him.

#cas loved #and it was the best thing that ever happened to him #an angel afraid of falling #and a man afraid of flying #meet in the middle #fall in love #and they can’t say it #but they showed it #oh my god did they show it #destiel #deancas #dean winchester #castiel #the best mistake #the greatest accident #and they wrote their own story #supernatural #spn

[strawlessandbraless]

There are two things I know for certain. One, Bert and Ernie are gay. Two, you are not going to die a virgin. Not on my watch.

#boy best friends #and they were roommates #their kid is god #insane show for insane people #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #deancas #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #bert and ernie #spn 5x03 #5x03

[morganaconda]

castiel in therapy: there's tension because my son murdered my husbands mother. dean is 37, but his mother is only 29 so she had a lot of life left to live. my son? he's two. I had him a little late as I myself am about 4 billion years old

#like this show is not real #spn #supernatural #destiel #deancas #castiel #cas #dean #dean winchester #jack kline #spnblr